Times

Event Key:

SO Sold Out
SUB Subtitled
FT Found in Translation
SNS Saturday Night Sides
ACM Aldeburgh Classic Movies
SO Sold Out

Thu 20 Feb
19:00

Details

Runtime: 180 minutes
Director: Max Webster
Cast: Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa
Country: UK
Year: 2025
Rating: (12A)

NT Live

NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

directed by Max Webster

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

Runtime: 180 minutes
Director: Max Webster
Cast: Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa
Country: UK
Year: 2025
Rating: (12A)

NT Live

Times

Thu 20 Feb
19:00

Event Key:

SO Sold Out
SUB Subtitled
FT Found in Translation
SNS Saturday Night Sides
ACM Aldeburgh Classic Movies
SO Sold Out

You might like...

Wicked

Showing from Fri 27 Dec

Wicked , the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple ) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by priv...

Conclave

Showing from Fri 27 Dec

Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci revel in the ritual and intrigue surrounding the process of choosing a new pontiff, in this tantalisingly tense Vatican-set drama. The Pope has died. Cardinal Lawrence must lead the Conclave to select the new leader of the Catholic world. But as high-ranking cardinals gather, he discovers sides have been drawn and secrets that might destroy a future pope, perhaps...

Paddington in Peru

Showing from Sat 28 Dec

Paddington in Peru brings Paddington's story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Anora

Showing from Mon 30 Dec

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

The Apartment

Showing from Tue 31 Dec

Join us on the last day of the year for one of the classic New Year's Eve movies, Billy Wilder's The Apartment . C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemon) is an office clerk who courts favour with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his apartment for their extramarital flings. Among them is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter learns is using his place for assignatio...

Small Things Like These

Showing from Sat 4 Jan

While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. Led by a powerhouse central performance by Cillian Murphy, in his first big screen performance following ...

Blitz

Showing from Sun 5 Jan

Steve McQueen’s visually dazzling tour de force is a moving and expansive tapestry of British life during the decisive moments of the Second World War. In the face of nightly air raids, East End mum Rita (yet another impressive turn by Saoirse Ronan) grows increasingly worried about her son George’s safety. Under the counsel of her father, Gerald (Paul Weller), she makes the heart-wrenching dec...

All We Imagine As Light

Showing from Mon 6 Jan

All We Imagine as Light is a beautiful, sweeping, emotional film that explores the complexities of female friendship and captures the frantic pace, the vibrant colours and the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai. In the city, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vai...

Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat

Showing from Tue 7 Jan

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the U.N security council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Crackling with energy and verve, this masterful film takes history and creates an audacious musical documentary. From the producer of I Am Not Y...

We Live in Time

Showing from Fri 10 Jan

The latest film from John Crowley is a poignant decade-spanning British romantic drama, strikingly led by Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. Almut (Florence Pugh)) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together - falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family - a difficult truth is reveale...

Queer

Showing from Sat 11 Jan

Luca Guadagnino and writer Justin Kuritzkes transport us to Mexico City in the 1940s with their adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel. 1950: William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey),...

The Royal Opera: The Tales of Hoffman

Showing from Wed 15 Jan

Four women: four curious love stories. Juan Diego Flórez leads a fantastic cast in Offenbach's dream-like opera.

A Complete Unknown

Showing from Fri 17 Jan

Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s new film. New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. As he forms his most intimate relationships during his ris...

Grand Theft Hamlet

Showing from Sun 26 Jan

Struggling actors Sam and Mark find solace from lockdown isolation by staging a production of Hamlet inside the videogame Grand Theft Auto. January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the future looks bleak. As the pandemic drags on, Mark -single and childless -is increasingly socially isolated, while Sam panics about ...

Maria

Showing from Fri 31 Jan

Angelina Jolie shines as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s empathetic reimagining of her final days in 1970s Paris. Following his acclaimed historical biopics Jackie and Spencer , about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana, respectively, Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made his third entry in an unofficial trilogy about world-famous women dealing with the blindi...

Nickel Boys

Showing from Sun 2 Feb

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Nominated for Best Motion Picture—Drama at the 2025 Golden Globes 1960s, Tallahassee. Elwood Curtis is sent to the reformatory Nickel Academy for a crime he didn’t commit. Present day, N...

Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

Showing from Wed 5 Feb

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo lead a stellar cast in a new 5-star production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth , filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal.